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It would be nice if when "management" moves a thread that they simply give us a short note within the thread as to why. At least we'd all have a better idea of what's going on. It's called "communication", folks. :)
And yet more on this, from The Washington Post:
The door plug that blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight over Portland, Ore., on Friday has been found in a schoolteacher’s backyard, amid investigations into the explosive depressurization accident th…
1/8: From PBS: Diagram of Boeing "Door Plug" and associated hardware fittings
1/9: From The New York Times: Partial Diagram of Boeing "Door Plug" and associated hardware fittings
Note that the NY Times diagram identifies two fittings as "Lo…
I have to say that if (at this time) over 140 of you have looked at this post and only one of you has been able to help, then I don't feel nearly as stupid as I did when I asked for help on this.
"the optional door/exit area was "sealed"/"plugged" in this model? So, was that construction glue that didn't hold? "
Most likely this whole thing will come down to one of the following situations:
• 1) The design and specification of the fuselage…
"Has man ever invented anything that wasn’t eventually turned to illegal, evil or destructive use?"
@hank - I'm still thinking about that... not doing too good.
Sometimes, reading what all of you folks say, I feel like I'm eavesdropping on a convention of alchemists and necromancers discussing what ingredients to throw into the big black kettles.
@Crash- Surely this thread must hold the all-time MFO record for the longest time in continuous activity, and likely a number of other things too: for instance, the number of participating MFO members:
AndyJ December 2023
Art May 2022
B…
"Old_Joe has likely beat me to the punch in linking to it."
@WABAC - No sir, not this time. A great link, though- a real "warning shot across the bow". It looks like not only will AI tools be used by humans for nefarious purposes, but evidently AI …
I dunno... I have gotten to the point where I really hate almost everything about flying. I sure hear you with respect to the kid behind me kicking the seat back, but then when deplaning and wading through the garbage pit that once was a nice-lookin…
Some very good points there, @hank- that makes a lot of political sense- the Supremes just sit there and let the Court of Appeals take all of the heat. Given the jurisdiction, that could very well be what goes down.
This whole thing is nothing more than Kabuki Theater.
Did anyone actually believe that the $1.5 billion judgement against Alex Jones would actually ever be collected?
Does anyone actually believe that the $148 million judgement against Rudy Giulia…
The CO Supreme Court issued a ruling but suspended it pending an appeal to the US Supreme Court.
Judicial/political games:
• A lower Colorado court issued a ruling barred Trump from the state ballot, finding that Trump had participated in an insur…
I feel as if we are now living in two different countries... "theirs", and "ours". Other than commercial ties there seems to be very little overlap between the two. If this continues to evolve, I wouldn't be at all surprised to eventually see a semi…
"My biggest yield among my 5 single stock picks is ET, oil/gas midstream"
@Crash - and here I thought that you didn't care for the capitalist 1% raping the world for mere profit.
How sad.
"There is no free lunch with the monthly subscription fees to all these services on top of high inflation"
True enough, but when you're in your eighties it's very hard to carry home heavy grocery bags. We still go shopping for meat, fruit and veget…
@MikeM - you probably remember "Click and Clack" / "Cartalk" which ran on NPR for many, many years. They had no use for Jeeps and Range Rovers way back then. Not much has changed, evidently.
"What's always screwed me up with that word is that I was indoctrinated in grammar school by the nuns saying that the Pope was infallible. Even at a young age I knew that was ridiculous"
@MikeM - You too, h'mm? In about the sixth grade I asked how …
Some of you folks seem to be getting more and more cynical. Given the way that our country and in fact much of the world is operating lately it's pretty easy to understand that.
